Green Roof Abstract

Abstract research on the green roof has been raised expeditiously over the past decade.

Green roof abstract.

A green roof is a green space created by adding layers of growing medium and plants on top of a traditional roofing system. This review paper includes the history of the green roof green roof components and multiple benefits environmental social and economical associated with the green roof technology. Green roofs are becoming an increasingly popular way to improve the environmental economic and aesthetic performance of both new and existing buildings. School of civil engineering purdue university west lafayette indiana.

Abstract green roofs have considerable potential for stormwater source control both for new developments and as a retrofit option. A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium planted over a waterproofing membrane. Research on the green roof has been raised expeditiously over the past decade. This should not be confused with the traditional roof garden where planting is done in freestanding containers and planters located on an accessible roof terrace or deck.

Well designed engineered and maintained green roofs provide multiple environmental social economic and aesthetic benefits. The layers of a contemporary green roof system from. Green roofs also known as vegetated roofs or living roofs are ballasted roofs consisting of a waterproofing membrane growing medium soil and vegetation plants overlying a traditional roof. Green roofs are increasingly used as a sustainable urban drainage system due to their positive impact on the storm water management.

Green roof have been proposed as the sustainable practice to mitigate the adverse effects of urbanization. Green roof have been proposed as the sustainable practice to mitigate the adverse effects of urbanization. And create healthier urban environments providing traditional roof services and. Various modeling approaches have been effectively employed to implement a green roof but previous models employed simplifications to simulate water movement in green roof systems.

Fully understood or valued. Along with the green roofs. Green infrastructure uses vegetation soils and natural processes to manage water. The mitigation consists in reducing the total outflow volume while delaying the initial time of runoff and distributing the outflow over a longer time period.

Other benefits and impacts are not yet.